Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

What those opposite are, in fact, arguing is that the government should not have put stimulus in the economy, the government should not have saved jobs, the government should have put 200,000 people and their families on the unemployment scrapheap and the government should have put the economy into recession. That is the Liberals' economic plan: let us put the economy into recession and let us put people on the economic scrapheap. That is not the Labor way. We are for jobs and we are for growth.